AWS Cloud Engineer

Peraton•,

6d•$104,000 - $166,000•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented AWS Cloud Engineer to ensure the performance, reliability, and scalability of critical platforms that support data-driven decision-making. The role provides day-to-day customer application support, maintains infrastructure, monitors systems, resolves incidents, and implements automation to improve operational efficiency. The engineer collaborates with data engineers, analysts, and other cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver secure, scalable solutions. The position requires AWS DevOps expertise, application support experience, problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to optimizing analytics infrastructure. This is a remote position.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance.
Willingness to undergo a pre-employment credit check as required by the customer.
Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, master's degree and 6 years of experience, or high school diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience.
Deep, hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, networking such as VPCs and routing, security such as IAM, resource policies and encryption, serverless and microservice architectures, and containerization such as ECS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Advanced Terraform skills and proficiency with infrastructure as code.
Proven experience designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable or shared components for enterprise-scale delivery.
Hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS application logs.
Strong Python and Bash scripting skills.
Proficiency in configuration management, observability using tools such as CloudWatch and Grafana, reliability, and disaster recovery practices.
Proficiency in cloud engineering processes for AWS workloads, including design, development, build, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance using automation tools such as Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI.
Strong Git proficiency, including common branching and release strategies such as GitFlow.

Nice To Haves

Ansible experience.
Experience with Runners and infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation.
Experience with PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript/Node.js, or other scripting languages to automate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues.
Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and resolving high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments.
Exemplary communication and analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.
Experience working in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

Design and build AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform-based infrastructure as code and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Guide ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architecture decisions, influencing design choices and aligning stakeholders.
Own automation end to end, from infrastructure-as-code authorship and pipeline design through production operations.
Participate in the on-call rotation and contribute to observability and monitoring practices.
Provide technical support and guidance to AWS and managed service users.
Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
Monitor AWS environments, identify performance or availability issues, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents.
Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to implement cloud solutions, improve reliability, and follow AWS best practices.
Maintain configuration documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures for all environments.
Perform backups, scheduled upgrades, and maintenance during the maintenance window.
Monitor for security vulnerabilities and perform ad hoc upgrades and maintenance as required.
Support audit activities by providing logs, reports, and system configurations.
Manage and support AWS Identity and Access Management, including roles, policies, permissions, and access controls, to maintain secure and compliant cloud environments.